Des ... Gerhard de Lairesse ... grosses Mahler-Buch: worinnen die Mahler-Kunst ... gelehret, durch Beweißthümer und Kupfferstiche erkläret, auch mit Exempeln aus den besten Kunst-Stücken [...]

Lairesse, Gérard de · 1784 · 44 pictures

A German edition of Gerard de Lairesse's 1784 treatise on painting, issued by Heidelberg University Library, teaching painters the art through explanatory text and copperplate engravings. Its pages are paired scenes in plain outline, mostly classical figures set among columns, arches, trees and ruins, with a few lettered figure labels. A designer might take its clear staging of figures in architectural settings as a compositional study for arranging groups within a frame.

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